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A short history of medical genetics / Peter S. Harper.
- Harper, Peter S.
- Date
- 2008
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Physical description
xi, 557 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Contributors
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. 501-538) and index.
Contents
Before Mendel -- Mendelism and human inherited disease -- The rise of classical genetics -- The beginnings of molecular biology -- Human chromosomes -- Human biochemical genetics -- The human gene map -- Genes, populations, and human inherited disease -- Human genetics as a scientific discipline -- From human to medical genetics -- The elements of medical genetics -- Medical genetics : the laboratory basis -- Human molecular genetics -- The management, treatment, and prevention of genetic disease -- Eugenics -- The tragedy of Russian genetics -- Medical genetics : the ethical dimension -- History in the making.
Languages
- English
Subjects
Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineAOT /HAROpen shelves
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Identifiers
ISBN
- 9780195187502
- 0195187504